This chart will make filibuster reformers feel optimistic
What follows is a chart of all 55 members of the Democratic Senate caucus, listed by seniority. The senators in red were, according to the best information available to me during the fight (1), opposed...
View ArticlePaul Ryan says health care drives the deficit, attacks President Obama for...
Here is another example of just how intellectually dishonest Rep. Paul Ryan really is.Earlier today on national television, he attacked President Obama for even supposedly saying that health care...
View ArticleI am completely swamped at work and will pay you to help me out
Hey Kossacks, it's Chris Bowers, the Senior Campaign Director at Daily Kos. That means I manage the email and activism program here.Right now, we have more activism and email work than we can complete,...
View ArticleYou are much better than I am at figuring out what actions we should take
Rarely divulged email list stats Hi everyone, it's Chris Bowers, Senior Campaign Director here at Daily Kos. That means I manage our activist campaigns and our email list. There is clearly interest in...
View ArticleAsk me anything about Daily Kos
OK Kossacks, it's time for another edition of everyone's favorite new meta discussion, "Ask me anything about Daily Kos." For those of you unfamiliar with this series, here is how our Managing Editor,...
View ArticleThe simple change in wording that shows why you should ignore polls on the...
These two questions from the June 9-10 CBS poll on the NSA surveillance program do an excellent job of summing up why it might be impossible to accurately gauge public opinion on this topic (emphasis...
View ArticleMore Republican demographic death spiral: 'No religion' a plurality among...
For the past two decades, there has been a rapid national shift away from identification with organized religion. And last year, according to the best available measurement of long-term trends in...
View ArticleAsk me anything about Daily Kos: Action and email edition
Welcome to this week's edition of Ask Me Anything About Daily Kos! This week your host is me, Chris Bowers. I am the Senior Campaign Director at Daily Kos. What that means is that I manage the Daily...
View ArticleDear Republicans, we are not afraid of you anymore. Regards, America
Republicans hurt a lot of people tonight. Workers will get furloughed. Community health centers will shutter their doors. Veterans will have their benefits disrupted. Toxic waste will stop being...
View ArticleDaily Kos email list surpasses 1,000,000 active subscribers
The Daily Kos community has passed another major milestone. This morning, our email list surpassed 1,000,000 current subscribers: Last year at this time, the Daily Kos email list stood at roughly...
View ArticleA pebble watches the avalanche: First-hand report from the most epic netroots...
The night Joe Lieberman lost the 2006 Democratic senatorial primary in Connecticut, I was in the audience at Ned Lamont headquarters, loudly chanting "bring them home!"Thursday, with over 100,000...
View ArticleTwo things to remember if you think this Duck Dynasty thing is about anything...
Conservatives have rallied to Phil Robertson's defense, arguing that employers should not be allowed to fire someone for making homophobic remarks. Conservatives oppose passage of the Employment...
View ArticleThe two charts that objectively prove Democrats aren't even slightly hurt by...
Democrats are becoming more liberal, and it isn't hurting them at all. This is objectively true, and I have two charts to prove it.First, as shown in the chart at the top of this post, long-term...
View ArticleAsk me anything about Daily Kos activism or emails, because those are things...
Hi Kossacks! It's Chris Bowers, Senior Campaign Director here at Daily Kos. I work with the brilliant Daily Kos Campaigns team of Rachel Colyer, Michael Langenmayr and Paul Hogarth to manage Daily Kos...
View ArticleActual photo of the moment Democrats lost the white working class vote
For those of you with your images turned off, that’s President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act into law. Martin Luther King, Jr. stands immediately behind him. It is taken as virtual...
View ArticleYes! Oregon becomes fourth state to block food stamp cuts and restore all...
Oregon joins New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania in shielding its residents from food stamp cuts: Gov. John Kitzhaber decided this week that Oregon will be the fourth state to avoid food stamp cuts...
View ArticleAsk *us* anything about Daily Kos Campaigns and emails
Hi Kossacks! This is Chris Bowers, director of the email and activism programs at Daily Kos. Today we have a special edition of Ask Me Anything, featuring the entire Daily Kos Campaigns Team. So if...
View ArticleHere's what I've learned from listening to Iraq war cheerleaders this week
If only we had gone into even more debt to have even more troops train even more Iraqi religious extremists how to use even bigger guns, and just kept doing that for years and years and years without...
View ArticleMonty Python and The Holy Grail as you have never seen it before
This is worth the 155 seconds it takes to watch, if for no other reason than it will bring a smile to your face.A friend once told me that the secret of Monty Python's success was that the actors all...
View ArticleI don't know if it's a good idea to tell you this or not, but here goes
June 9th anti-Fast Track rally in front of Nancy Pelosi's office. Hello Daily Kos. My name is Chris Bowers. I manage the email and activism programs here at Daily Kos. Over the next two days, my...
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